It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, âyou donât tell a lifeâŠyou live a life, and while youâre living it, itâs already lost, has slipped away.â Tristano Dies, one of Antonio Tabucchiâs major novels, is a vibrant consideration of love, war, devotion, betrayal, and the instability of the past, of storytelling, and what it means to be a hero.
Tristano Dies - Antonio Tabucchi & Elizabeth Harris
It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, âyou donât tell a lifeâŠyou live a life, and while youâre living it, itâs already lost, has slipped away.â Tristano Dies, one of Antonio Tabucchiâs major novels, is a vibrant consideration of love, war, devotion, betrayal, and the instability of the past, of storytelling, and what it means to be a hero.